http://www.womentowomen.com/nutritionandweightloss/splenda.aspx
I read the entire thorough discussion of sugar and sugar substitutes. Although it ends with an offer of their “Personal Program” for health, I found their information balanced and thoughtful.
Entries from January 2009
29 January 2009
A link to read about sugar and sugar substitutes
19 January 2009
In Memory of Glenn Kramar
(November 21, 1925-January 19, 1999)
This is a translation of a poem written by Pedro Tamayo of Tungual, Peru, and published in the magazine, La Voz Eterna, July-August 2002.
Like a bird that spreads his wings from his nest
and soars in lonely spaces
so he came to distant and dangerous places.
On rustic slopes and steep [...]
15 January 2009
More about Pollan’s book
Today I read part of chapter three, “The Industrialization of Eating.” He goes into the history of white flour, for instance, and explains how choices made because of human weaknesses have combined to weaken the nutritional value of what most of the people are eating today. I also browsed ahead and read his argument [...]
13 January 2009
Book Suggestion-In Defense of Food
My family has been the recipient of much of my advice about nutrition, so they respond with anything good they find on the subject. The book “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan, copyright 2008, was dropped on my table about lunchtime today and I skimmed it while eating a delicious mushroom sauce pasta, [...]
2 January 2009
The world is too much with us…
Mrs. Elsberry assigned sonnets for us to memorize in my English literature class and the first few lines of this one by William Wordsworth comes to my mind often. Mr. Wordsworth would rather be a pagan than be trapped in the “getting and spending” world. I’m not a pagan, but I appreciate the reminder to [...]
